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From: Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv@yahoo.com>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: accidentally deleted data directory
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
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Thank you!
 
I deleted data directory again and then ran initdb.
This time service started successfully.
TG
 


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From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
To: Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv@yahoo.com>; "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] accidentally deleted data directory


Thara Vadakkeveedu wrote:
> Do I need to run pg_resetxlog to fix the corrupted pg_control file issue?

No, since you don't mind starting afresh,
just delete the data directory and run initdb.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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